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| Date: | 05 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen on a barge using a pulley to raise sheet steel pilings which were damaged by high water in October, 1911. |
| Date: | 05 09 1912 |
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| Description: | Men with shovels working downstream from the east abutment, while other men are looking on. |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Men working from the elevated road on the east end of the power dam, constructing shots (chutes) for the concrete. |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen pouring concrete from the elevated railroad into forms below. |
| Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Forms have been removed, revealing the newly poured buttresses and apron. A man is pushing a cart on the elevated road. |
| Date: | 05 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing outside the dining hall before dinner. |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | An overview, from the west bank, of the power dam construction site. The high trestle is in the background, and the narrow gauge electric railroad is in th... |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen pose around the "big boiler" and engine that power the 12 inch centrifugal pump used to pump out the coffer dam at the power dam construction site. |
| Date: | 08 07 1912 |
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| Description: | Men excavating within the coffer dam. One man is standing on a high piling. Several steam engines at work fill the air with smoke. The high trestle and fou... |
| Date: | 09 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Pile drivers working within the confines of the coffer dam. Men are on the high trestle constructing chutes for pouring concrete. |
| Date: | 10 23 1923 |
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| Description: | Men working on the concrete chutes and elevated trestle. Iron reinforcing bars protrude from the forms. |
| Date: | 11 02 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen using a crane to erect the gate guides for the power house. |
| Date: | 11 02 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing during erection of the draft tubes for the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam. |
| Date: | 11 21 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view within the coffer dam showing four steel draft tubes; wooden supports are visible inside one of the tubes. |
| Date: | 11 21 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing on and in front of the steel draft tubes. The gate guides are visible on the right. |
| Date: | 11 21 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the progress of construction within the coffer dam showing the gate guides and draft tubes in place. Concrete forms and chutes, as well as... |
| Date: | 11 21 1912 |
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| Description: | Two workmen standing in the outlet of a steel draft tube in the power house, while other men are working above it. Cars are moving along the elevated trest... |
| Date: | 02 08 1913 |
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| Description: | A winter view with workers posing with brush mats at the power dam construction site. The gate guides and high trestle form the background. |
| Date: | 05 17 1913 |
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| Description: | Progress on the power house construction, with the east portion of the wall complete, and men working on forms for the rest of the wall. |
| Date: | 05 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen on temporary walkways among reinforcing bars on the roof of the power house. |
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